AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD FirePro D500

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (274W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +488%

13.11 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

24

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

274W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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